Mark Ungar

Professor, Political Science & Criminal Justice, Brooklyn College/Graduate Center, CUNY

Mark Ungar (Ph.D., Columbia University) is Professor of Political Science and Criminal Justice at Brooklyn College and Graduate Center, CUNY. He is author of five books and over 40 articles on policing, judicial reform, rights and environmental crime, and has been an advisor with the United Nations, USAID, Inter-American Development Bank, and six Latin American governments.  He has led inter-government initiatives on extortion in Central America, organized crime in the Amazon, and transnational arms trafficking.  He is a commissioner at the International Network for Environmental Compliance and Enforcement (INECE); was a scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center; and has received grants from the National Democratic Institute, the International Union for Conservation of Nature. and the Ford, Tinker, Henkel, and Tow Foundations.